A doctor who faces being struck off after she was found guilty of an attack on police even though she had been drugged has said she has no memory of the incident.

Dr Eireann Kerr said she had been “the victim of crime” and that she seeks comfort from the fact that she was not sexually assaulted on the night in question.

“I can only say that I’m really, really lucky that whoever tried to spike my drink didn’t actually get the chance to go any further and that’s the only solace that I can take out of it,” she said.

The 32-year-old, of Marlborough Park in South Belfast, said she viewed the CCTV footage of the incident - from December 2013 - for the first time in court on Wednesday.

“I was horrified and scared, and I still couldn’t remember it,” she said.

“Nothing came back to me, which is really scary, but I know that they [the police] were trying to help me.

“There is no doubt, I have complete faith in the police as a whole and I know that they were trying to help me but I must have thought I was being attacked.

“I didn’t understand where I was. I was in an acute confusional state.

“I have worked in A&E departments and I work with people who are acutely confused and intoxicated and disorientated from sickness and psychiatric illness.

“I understand that some of the things they do at that time are not them and are not their character.

“And I understand that the drug that was given to me completely changes your personality. It makes you aggressive, it can make you completely disinhibited.

“It gives you amnesia and that’s why it is used as a date rape drug. It makes you dulled in your senses and your orientation and that’s exactly how I was on that night.”

Dr Kerr, who was working as an anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry at the time of the incident, was taken to Strand Road police station in the city by a taxi driver who was concerned about her.

Forensic tests found traces of the date rape drug GHB in Dr Kerr’s system after her arrest.

The judge at Derry Magistrates’ Court said it did not give him any pleasure to find her guilty.